Cyberpunk, but urban

Yushu asked their captain for a plan. Ye Lan's presence really confused them. Whether to fight or retreat at the cost of bullets was up to Li Wei to decide.

"...Wait a little longer, don't be impatient."

Li Wei thought about it for a while. He didn't know how strong the man standing on the podium was. But he dared to do his own thing under the threat of guns. The man on the stage must have enough confidence in himself.

So instead of shooting at him immediately and annoying an enemy whose strength is unknown, it is better to stop firing temporarily and observe what he is going to do.

What should Ye Lan do? All Ye Lan has to do is wait, wait for fate to bring changes to the three parties who have all stopped at this moment.

Silence spread in the chapel, and then spread to the sniper point where Li Wei and the other two were. After a long and long wait, Irene, who was kneeling on the ground and enduring the pain in her shoulder, finally recovered from the loss of consciousness caused by the loss of her thinking gear.

After waking up, her desire to survive occupied her mind in an instant. Without any hesitation, Irene, whose gear church pope's shell was shattered by Ye Lan, turned her kneeling position towards Ye Lan, and then prostrated herself to him and begged:

"Please, save my life."

“Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… Is it because of me? Even Irene’s predetermined fate of invading the library as a member of the Symphony Orchestra can be completely changed at this moment?”

The moment Irene abandoned the idea of ​​living as a cog and having everything arranged by others and replaced it with her desire to survive, she lost the qualification to be twisted.

Distortion is a manifestation of extreme self-love. Once the distorted person cannot even stick to his own ideas, there is naturally no such thing as self-love. The distorted person who accepts reality will get rid of the distortion.

"I'm so sorry!!! The Gear Sect is just my fantasy!!! Please save my life, I will do anything!!!"

"It's so ugly, Irene."

Ye Lan sighed, and Li Wei, who was in a distant sniper point, asked Stephen who had just returned behind him.

"Is our evacuation route ready?"

"Everything has been arranged. The escape route from the sniper point, the clothing used to change one's features, the vehicles needed for evacuation... I have arranged three copies of each."

"Okay. Yushu, fire. No matter what the result of this shot is, we will retreat immediately."

"Yes!"

The gunshot and the response rang out at the same time, but Ye Lan, who was already satisfied, did not intend to let Irene die like this. She could be used as a control group, and let Ye Lan try to see if he could change the fate of some people without going through himself.

So, the ego equipment collectively known as the Sword of Tears appeared on Ye Lan before the bullet hit Irene. The slender rapier pierced the bullet skillfully and turned it into a piece of scrap metal.

"retreat!"

Li Wei immediately gave orders to the other two people, and the three of them ran out of the sniper position in an instant and ran towards the retreat route arranged by Stephen in advance.

But Ye Lan, who planned to send them to the library according to the original plot, would not let them escape like this.

Chapter 179. Library Human Resources Department Opens

"What the hell, how did that guy get through such a long distance and appear in our escape route?!"

Stephen, who was running away desperately with a gun in his arms, complained loudly. The three people from the Judian Office had changed their escape routes three times under Ye Lan's leisurely pursuit, but no matter how they ran, Ye Lan would always appear ahead of them on their path.

"How should I know, damn, that guy is as scary as a 'feature'."

Li Wei, who is usually calm and careful, was at a loss when teased by Ye Lan, and even couldn't help swearing in front of his teammates.

"If this deal fails, we won't even be able to recover the money we spent on the bullets, let alone make money!"

Until this time, Stephen was still struggling with the commission and money. Even Li Wei didn't know how to evaluate his wrong mentality at this time.

Yu Shu said to the two of them, "You saw it just now, right? I would say that guy is just playing a trick on us!"

Just now, the grenade fired by Ye Lan through the ego weapon "Light of the Match of the End" exploded at their feet.

But this grenade seemed to have determined the damage range, and the flame only brushed their hair. Apart from Stephen's hair being set on fire, it did not cause any effective harm to them.

"We are no match for him. If we don't escape before he gets serious, we will never have a chance to escape again!"

Li Wei urged the other two to speed up, as the exit of this last escape route was right in front of them.

Unfortunately, a figure was already standing at the exit of the tunnel. Ye Lan, whose image was only a pitch-black shadow when illuminated by the light from the outside, became the nightmare of the three people in the Judian Office.

"Damn, do we have any other escape route?!" Li Wei asked Stephen who was following behind him.

"No more. All possible directions have already been changed..."

After hearing this, Li Wei finally asked the two to stop with him at the tunnel exit.

He looked at Ye Lan who was guarding the exit of the tunnel and asked him, "Excuse me, why are you teasing us?"

"..." Ye Lan was silent for a while, until Stephen made a mistake under pressure and dropped one of his magazines on the ground, he finally asked Li Wei: "Who gave you the commission?"

Ye Lan's question made Li Wei fall silent. For a closer, telling others the client's information is a serious mistake that could lead to the revocation of the closer's license.

If he answered this question at this moment, even if they could leave here alive, the Judgment Office would lose all its commissions from now on and disappear from the cruel world of the city.

"what to do……"

Li Wei's forehead was covered with cold sweat. He had no idea how to escape. But at this moment, Stephen seemed to have found a life-saving straw and cried out in surprise.

"Li Wei, look at this!"

"What? An invitation..."

Stephen hurriedly tried to bend over to pick up the magazine, but was surprised to find that there was an invitation to the library under his magazine. This invitation might be their only escape route at the moment.

"Li Wei, this is an invitation letter from the library that is said to be upgraded from 'urban legend' to 'urban evil' recently... As long as we sign this, we can be picked up by the library!"

Although he had a way out, Li Wei ignored Stephen's words.

He had never heard of anyone walking out of the library alive, so he rushed into a place that was completely in danger. He might as well make one more attempt to communicate. If he could gain forgiveness from the gentleman who stopped them, then everything would be a happy ending.

"Sir, if we have disturbed you, I sincerely apologize. We swear that we will forget what we have seen and heard here. Can you please be merciful and let us go?"

"You want to leave? How can I let you go if you won't tell me what I want to know?"

After hearing Ye Lan's words, the three people from Judian Office fell into silence for a moment. Although his attitude was not bad, what he asked them to do was something they absolutely could not do.

"Li Wei! Do something with that invitation!"

After a moment of silence, Li Wei asked a question that had been on his mind: "You... want to force us to sign this invitation, right?"

Ye Lan stared at him for a while, then smiled and said to him: "Haha, Mr. Li Wei from Judian Office, your ability to observe things is indeed very sharp. Let's put it this way, sign it, and then go take a walk around the library. Regardless of whether you can leave there alive, the matter between us is settled."

"Hey, hey, we're all dying in there, what else can't be done?!"

It was difficult for Stephen to accept Ye Lan's deal, but his opinion was worthless at the moment. Li Wei knew that if the three of them wanted to survive, agreeing to Ye Lan's request was the only way.

"Okay, let's sign."

Taking the pen from Ye Lan, Li Wei pulled Stephen and Yu Shu to sign their names. The door of the library opened beside them, pulling the three of them into the library together.

"Wow, Ye Lan seems like a psychopathic villain..."

After watching how Ye Lan forced the three finishers from the Judian Agency to enter the library, Malkuth rubbed the goose bumps on her body and spoke to the librarians who were watching the new guest's experience clip with her.

"Ye Lan, he seems to be enjoying it."

Hod smiled and talked to the other librarians, not caring at all about how bad Ye Lan's behavior was.

As for Angela, when Ye Lan stopped those finishers for the last time at the tunnel exit, she was no longer paying attention to what was happening in the light curtain. She had already appeared at the entrance of the library, waiting for Li Wei and the other two to arrive.

As soon as they entered the library, Stephen's complaints resounded throughout the space: "Damn, that guy is simply playing with us... Who the hell is he!?"

"Oh, that guy is just playing us in the palm of his hand."

Li Wei sighed. They finally entered the library under Ye Lan's encouragement. What would happen next was not something they could decide.

Yu Shu looked at the two people beside him and responded, "I don't know what that person wants. He actually asked us to enter the library."

"Anyway, I'm lucky to be alive now."

Chapter 180. It has been said that guns are useless against urban masters

"Ouch..."

"Stephen, don't be so nervous."

Stephen let out a long sigh, which attracted Yushu's attention. Following this attention, the sensitive and negative closer began his next round of complaints.

"How can I not be nervous? I finally escaped from the tiger's mouth, and now I step into the wolf's den of the library. You also know that we don't have much ammunition, right? Oh... Whether I die here or die in the hands of that man, the result will be the same."

My heart also became heavy after hearing what he said, and Yu Shu also sighed and said: "Since there is a choice, it is better to die late than early."

"Everyone will die one day anyway. It doesn't make any difference whether you die early or late." Even Li Wei was affected by the depressed and negative atmosphere at the moment.

Stephen smiled, and with a smile uglier than crying, he said to the two of them, "That really hits the spot in my heart."

"Don't worry, I'll do my best."

It was just a futile consolation, even Yu Shu himself felt it was meaningless.

The library took advantage of Stephen's sensitivity to amplify the negative emotions in the hearts of the three of them. Before the battle even started, the three closers from the Period Office already had deathly looks on their faces.

"Dear guests, welcome."

At this time, Angela arrived and, as usual, she welcomed the guests.

"Hello~ I'm Stephen, who will soon become your museum's collection..."

“This guest seems a little listless? Whether you get the book or become the book, it all depends on your own will.”

"Okay~ Thank you for your comfort..."

Stephen's words were full of discouragement, and the other two people in his group didn't know what to say.

Yu Shu covered his face and sighed, "You've ruined the whole atmosphere..."

"...Please ignore him. We came here in a hurry. We will leave after we finish our business here."

Li Wei, who had calmed down, stood up. As the captain of the three men, even if he was shaken at the moment, he had to come forward to talk to Angela from the library.

"I understand that every guest who comes here has different needs and purposes. I have received more rude guests before, so please don't worry about your etiquette."

To Angela, her words were simply a statement of fact. But to Li Wei and the other two, Angela's toneless words were full of irony.

The three dejected people had nothing to say to Angela, so they followed Angela's guidance and walked into the room with a sign saying "Reception Room".

"Hey, this time we have a guest who uses a gun as a weapon. Well, I think you all know that if you defeat me, you can take the book and leave, but if you lose, it will become a book and stay in the library."

Seeing that they were holding guns, Roland put away his Durandal and replaced it with two heavy pistols produced by the Logic Studio.

Compared to the three finishers at the Period Office who had to calculate ammunition and expenses, Roland never had to consider the cost of bullets.

What's more, the two heavy pistols he was using at the moment were weapons taken out from his own books with the help of the library.

"...Using guns too? Should we say that he thinks highly of us or is he simply teasing us?"

Li Wei could only make a final guess in his mind, and then he had to fight with Stephen and Yushu against this enemy whose name was not yet known.

"So, are the guests ready? I'm about to begin."

Before he finished speaking, bullets from both sides rained down on each other in the battle space in the reception room, and the sound of gunfire like popping beans continued.

The three people from the Period Office knew very well that they had limited ammunition and the enemy was obviously very powerful. It would be difficult for accurate sniping to deal with such an agile opponent who was also good at using guns.

"Yushu, save the bullets for sniping. Stephen, continue to suppress the opponent with me."

The two did not reply, but Yushu's rhythm of pulling the trigger suddenly dropped. Stephen adjusted his rifle from the three-round burst mode to the full-automatic mode, and more bullets poured out in Roland's direction.

"You guys are really good with guns..."

Roland was chatting casually. In an open flat area like the reception room, there was only one way to avoid being hit by bullets - to rely on his own strong agility to directly avoid the enemy's fire line.

This is obviously something that the three people from the Judian Agency cannot do.

"Li Wei, we should have suppressed him, right?" Stephen took the time to ask Li Wei while changing bullets.

"Don't be distracted... Yushu, test the shot."

boom!

Yu Shu fired the Logic Studio's sniper bullet at the command, which passed through the space between them at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye. However, even such a swift and deadly attack was something Roland could dodge with just a yawn.

In return, a bullet also from the Logic Studio traveled along the barrel of the sniper rifle in Yu Shu's hand, collided with the bullet in her gun, and turned the entire gun into a pile of scrap metal.

"Yushu!"

"I'm fine...just the gun is broken."

Under normal circumstances, such a concern would not cause any irreversible consequences, but in this case, with just a moment of distraction, a bullet sent by Roland was embedded in Li Wei's forehead.